The Velvet Chapel – Gothic sapphic horror romance – Available on Kindle Unlimited
1–3 line pitch:
Two grieving women meet at a decaying rural chapel in northern England and fall into an obsession that blurs the line between devotion and damnation. It is a Gothic sapphic horror romance, with candlelit rituals, buried secrets, and heat that turns dangerous.
Blurb:
At the edge of a quiet English town stands a small chapel that no one attends anymore, except the people who cannot stay away. When Verity Hargreaves, still reeling from loss and scandal, begins visiting the chapel to outrun her grief, she meets Lady Rosamund Bramwell, a woman who seems to understand exactly what the darkness inside that place can offer.
What starts as shared solace twists into something far more consuming as the two women are drawn deeper into each other and into whatever still lives beneath the chapel’s worn wooden floor. As their desire intensifies, so do the visions, the whispering nights, and the sense that the land itself is watching.
The Velvet Chapel is a Victorian Gothic sapphic horror romance about faith, hunger, and the terrible beauty of being truly seen.
List of tropes and elements:
• Gothic horror romance
• Sapphic and queer protagonists
• Obsession and mutual ruin
• “Is it haunting or is it in their heads?”
• Isolated country estate and chapel in northern England
• High heat scenes with a dark emotional tone
Trigger warnings:
• Grief and bereavement
• Religious trauma and imagery
• Cult abuse and coercive supernatural influence
• Blood and mild body horror
• Child endangerment in a horror context
• Mentions of self destructive thoughts and behaviors
• Explicit sexual content between consenting adults
• Power imbalance and emotionally unhealthy relationship dynamics
Link to product page:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZZ7FKVR?dplnkId=36dd1d3f-2817-4aed-aec8-861fe2dfdb7d&nodl=1